my year starts here

I thought my New Year's was fabulous and special, I had someone who wanted to share my life with me. And it WAS a wonderful time, don't get me wrong, I couldn't have asked for a better date, but all that "our year" talk ended up being just talk. The cookie crumbled just like cookies do.
Metaphors aside, my birthday party ended up being my real new year. We had a little Dance Party USA kicking for a while, my friends would make me killer cocktails (pomegranate martinis, weee!) I had my house filled with wonderful people who wanted to celebrate and be merry with me. My cake was fabulous. It was a throw down hang loose good times party.
Completely surrounded by loved ones I was filled with gratitude toward the beauty of life, thank God. One of my presents was some handrolled incense made at one of my guru's ashram (my friends know me well), inside was a piece of paper that had written on it some soul food. It would be my honor to share with you:
-All things, animate and inanimate, respond positively to attention.
-Strength attracts. Energy accomplishes.
-Wastage of any kind leads to scarcity-- the thing we waste avoids us.
-Sympathy for those with ill-will or jealousy toward us brings untold trouble.
-Fear attracts the object of fear.
-Expectation postpones results until the excitement subsides.
-Our attitudes and our opinions act like self fulfilling prophesies.
-Gratitude in our hearts for the good we receive is the best way to attract more.
-When we encounter an external obstacle in life, we can look within ourselves and discover an oppurtunity for inner growth.

Yea for my new year! Age is irrelevant if you want it to be. I say this because there are a lot of people out there who felt they had to make some comment about my age when I told them about my birthday. I don't get the point. "Ewww that's old! You're almost 30!" Shit like that. My response to that is this: I'm going to enjoy my birthday every year I get to have because I enjoy being alive. Period. Keep you're age grumblings to yourself I say, you are as young as you want to be.